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Mild to Moderate Exam Quiz QuestionsResearch concerning individuals we now identify as having learning disabilities was initially conducted
by: psychologists,
- physicians
- educators
- parents - correct answer ✔✔Physicians
Which of the following operational criteria is included in the IDEA definition of learning disabilities:
- exclusion and underachievement
- severe deficits in mathematics and reading
- evidence of brain injury
- underachievement and low levels of intelligence - correct answer ✔✔exclusion and underachievement
The IDEA definition of learning disabilities does not currently include disabilities in:
- language functioning
- mathematics
- reading
- social skills - correct answer ✔✔Social skills
Although it cannot currently be readily assessed, most definitions of learning disabilities presume that
the disorder is related to:
- underachievement
- language disorders
- central nervous system dysfunction
- low levels of intellectual functioning - correct answer ✔✔central nervous system dysfunction
most learners with learning disabilities are identified during
,- the period when they learn to talk
- the elementary grades
- secondary school
- identification is spread evenly over the various age periods - correct answer ✔✔elementary grades
Kirk suggested that learning disabilities fall into two groups:
- academic and developmental
- reading and math
- academic and social
- psychological and language related - correct answer ✔✔academic and developmental
According to IDEA 2004, which of the following is NOT required to determine if a child has a learning
disabilities:
- assessing the child's ability to learn
- evaluating academic functioning in a variety of academic areas
- determining if the child has had the opportunity to learn
- evaluating the discrepancy between the ability and achievement measures - correct answer
✔✔evaluating the discrepancy between the ability and achievement measures
which of the following procedures was added to IDEA 2004 to the list of ways learning disabilities may be
identified ?
- ability- achievement discrepancy
- neurological functioning procedures
- response to intervention
- perceptual assessment - correct answer ✔✔response to intervention
a student with a learning disability may also have which of the following disabilities?
- intellectual disability
- emotional disturbance
- speech impairment
, - hearing impairment - correct answer ✔✔speech impairment
What percentage of children receiving special education services in the United States are classified as
having learning disabilities?
- 25%
-36%
- 52%
- 5% - correct answer ✔✔36%
In 1966 SD Clements and Task Force 1 established criteria for determining if learners we not refer to as
having learning disabilities could be categorized as having?
- word blindness
- lack of cerebral hemispheric dominance
- brain injury
- minimal brain dysfunction - correct answer ✔✔minimal brain dysfunction
Remedial reading techniques based on Orton's work on cerebral dominance were developed by
- Fernald and Cruikshank
- Strauss and Lehtinen
- Gillingham and Stillman
- Frostig and Kephart - correct answer ✔✔Gillingham and Stillman
A variety of measures have been proposed over the years since the discrepancy criteria was first posed
by Barbara Bateman in 1965. Which of the following have been found to be valid indicators of LD in
these learners
ability- achievement discrepancy
scatter/variation
low acheivement for grade
none of these - correct answer ✔✔none of these
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